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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






2. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






3. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






4. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






5. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






6. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






7. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






8. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






9. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






10. Broken down acts.






11. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






12. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






13. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






14. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






15. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






16. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






17. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






18. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






19. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






20. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






21. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






22. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






23. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






24. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






25. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






26. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






27. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






28. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






29. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






30. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






31. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






32. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






33. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






34. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






35. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






36. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






37. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






38. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






39. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






40. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






41. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






42. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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43. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






44. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






45. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






46. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






47. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






48. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






49. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






50. The organizational form of a literary work.